Stephen R. Perry

John J. O'Brien Professor of Law & Professor of Philosophy; Director, Institute of Law & Philosophy

Education

DPhil - Oxford - '88

LLB - Toronto - '81

BPhil - Oxford - '78

BA - Toronto - '75

Stephen Perry is a prominent legal philosopher and legal theorist. Before taking up his current position at Penn, he taught at McGill University and was later the Fiorello La Guardia Professor of Law at NYU Law School.
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Stephen Perry is a prominent legal philosopher and legal theorist. Before taking up his current position at Penn, he taught at McGill University and was later the Fiorello La Guardia Professor of Law at NYU Law School. He has published numerous well regarded articles on jurisprudence, political philosophy, and theoretical aspects of the law of torts. He is particularly interested in the methodology of jurisprudence, the general nature of authority and obligation in law, the role of corrective justice in tort law, the morality of risk imposition, and the relationship between legal and moral responsibility. Perry is a sought-after lecturer and panelist. He has presented papers in many different venues, including the Analytic Legal Philosophy Conference and the Colloquium in Legal, Political and Social Philosophy at NYU Law School. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute, and in the fall of 2012 he will be a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at King’s College, London. Last May he taught an intensive course on Political Authority at Tel Aviv University.

The Role of Duty of Care in a Rights-Based Theory of Tort Law, in THE GOALS OF PRIVATE LAW 79 (Andrew Robertson & Tang Hang Wu eds., 2009).

Where Have All the Powers Gone? Hartian Rules of Recognition, Noncognitivism, and the Constitutional and Jurisprudential Foundations of Law, in THE RULE OF RECOGNITIONAND THE U.S. CONSTITUTION (Matthew D. Adler & Kenneth Einar Himma eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2009).

Research Areas

Tort Theory

Jurisprudence

Political Philosophy

Positions

Penn Law - John J. O'Brien Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy (2005- ); Co-Director, Institute for Law and Philosophy (2009- ); John J. O'Brien Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy (1997-2003); Professor (1996-97); Visiting (1995-96)

NYU Law School – Fiorello La Guardia Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy (2003–05)

Visiting Professor - NYU Law School (1999-2000), University of San Diego Law School (1994)

Member of Advisory Board of Legal Theory (1998- ); Member of the American Law Institute (1998- )